Today’s tutorial looks at the Refine Edge feature in Photoshop, and how it can drastically improve your selections that contain hair and/or fur.

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Color Range: If you’re looking to select all or most of a single color in your image, Color Range will help you do that. It lets you automatically target pure colors, or sample specific colors using the eye dropper. To add to your sample, hold down shift. To subtract, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac). Pressing OK will create the selection.

Refine Edge: When you initially create a selection, it’s likely to be very sharp around the edges, and likely won’t contain hair or fur. Refine Edge will allow you to not only soften out those edges, but you’ll be able to use Smart Radius to grab hair and fur which may not have been selected.

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Tools used in this tutorial:

Camera Raw: Camera Raw allows you to make many adjustments to your raw images, such as Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, and Clarity. When applying your adjustments, hold down Shift to open as a Smart Object, which will allow you to make changes to your adjustments at a later point.

IceflowStudios is run by Howard Pinsky, providing FREE Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom video tutorials to the graphic design and photographer community. As an Adobe Community Professional, Howard’s Photoshop tutorials have been recognized by schools around the country, design blogs, and by Adobe. To date, the videos uploaded to the IceflowStudios YouTube channel and website have been viewed over 80 million times.

No matter what you’re looking to learn in Photoshop, you’re bound to find it in our library of over 350 tutorials. Topics include: Text Effects in Photoshop, Photo Composition, Photo Retouching, The Basics of Photoshop, Designing in Photoshop, Special Effects, and more! While new videos will be taught using the latest version of Photoshop, you’ll find videos covering Photoshop CC, Photoshop CS6, CS5, CS4, and CS3.

For more information on Adobe Photoshop, check out Adobe’s website at: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html

For the written version of most of our tutorials, check out: http://www.iceflowstudios.com/